"There's a new game launched yesterday, right??"
"Yes, my most awaited game is finally out!! It's a survival game, we have to survive in the world full of zombies."
"It's a multiplayer game, so let's join discxrd tonight!"
I wonder why...
Why did they have to be so loud??!!!
Bathump!! Bathump!!!
Urgh...now my heart felt like it will say farewell to me as it was about to jump right out of my chest. I was never nervous like this before.
"Luna, tomorrow is the summer vacation. Where are you planning to go?" said the guy who made me filled with anxiety the whole yesterday night.
"I was going to go to my orphanage, it's been a long time since I last visited there. How about you??"
"I..." he was gloomy out of sudden after many minutes of smiling at me, he turned his head down and sipped his coffee, "I need to take the summer classes."
"Ah, too bad. You know...Kai, I called you here for..." I bit my tongue a lot in the way of my speech.
"Right about that..."
Why did I feel something off from him?? Did my best friend blow me out??
I told her not to tell him about my confession today.
Calm down, calm down--
AHHH, how could I calm down when he looked like he was about to reject me??
"Wait--"
"You want to see that movie with me, right??"
Huh??
"It's gonna be amazing!! We can finally watch it together. We can go to the cinema after this..."
"Ah, I didn't call you here for that." I said bluntly at him.
"...then...??"
"...I love you." he blinked at me, and his phone dropped to the floor with his mouth still open wide as stared at me.
I gulped preparing for any answer coming from him, I won't be hurt even if he rejected me because tomorrow I won't meet him since it's the summer vacation and I had enough time to move on from him.
Yes, yes...I didn't have to--
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"Miss, where do you want to go??"
"Take me home..."
Ah...why did the sky today seem to be so gloomy?? Or was it just my eyes??
"Miss..."
"Yes??" I wiped my tears and looked at the driver.
"I don't know where your home is, so please tell me."
"Ah..."
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Coming back home, I waved to my neighbor smiling in a friendly manner.
Seeing the elderly holding hands with each other, somehow pissed me off.
What is love anyway?? Why did two people have to love each other?
Ring ring
"Hello..." I answered the phone putting it near my ears as I walked upstairs to my apartment on the second floor.
When I heard the voice of that person, I couldn't hold back my tears.
Wahh
"So how's your first date??!! Tell me everything, are you enjoying the movie right now?? Are you two holding hands??"
"Aera...I've been dumped."
"Ah...sorry, what is it??? My phone suddenly lost connection."
"He rejected me!!!"
"Sorry, I can't hear you. Let's talk later."
I threw my phone on my small bed and jumped on it, grabbed a pillow, and cried out loud alone.
It felt really terrible!!!
After many hours of crying, I also finished packing all my clothes. I locked the door of my apartment and left for the orphanage in the landlord's truck.
He was friends with the head of the orphanage, I moved to Seoul thanks to him. He also visited his hometown too that day, so I went with him.
The sun was setting down, the sunset seemed so beautiful that day as I looked at it with my puffy eyes. My eyes were swollen from all the crying.
My five years one side love ended on the same day, I didn't even know how I'm going to face him when the vacation ended.
For now, I just wanted to move on from him and the perfect place for me was the place where I was raised.
I really missed the children there.
"Luna-ah, wait in the truck...I have to go..." he pointed at the forest and I told him to go since he had been driving for hours.
He went deep into the forest to pee leaving me alone in the truck on the side of the remote road, there weren't any cars driving that day.
Somehow the world felt quiet.
The thought before I heard the scream coming from the direction of my landlord went.
I smelled something weird and there were many eyes staring at me from all directions giving me a chill down to my spine.
I didn't feel safe, I immediately took off my earphones stop listening to music.
I shouted calling the landlord from the opened window of the truck, wind blew my long hair brushing off my face. I was relieved to see the landlord walking back to me.
I thought something terrible happened to him, maybe I was just overthinking things.
"Flesh...flesh...I want flesh...juicy flesh..."
My smile dropped, although I was trembling all over my body, I closed the window immediately.
I pinched myself a little to confirm whether the scenario in front of me was a nightmare or not. If it wasn't, then I might be losing my mind after getting rejected.
There were two options for me to choose, one was to open the other door and flee from there, and the second was for me to move to the driver seat and drive the truck leaving the landlord there.
I didn't know how to drive the truck, but...I had no choice, I moved immediately, having no time to put of the safety belt, I started the truck and stepped on the gas pedal.
My hand were shaking on the wheel, I heard many feet standing on top of the truck roof, and especially the sight of the landlord in front of me.
I panted as I couldn't find any way to shake him off from blocking my sight of the road, the blood on his neck with the bitemark stained the glass, many hands were all over the window.
I didn't want to die. I was scared.
I had no idea how to drive the vehicle, I only knew two things was the wheel and the gas pedal. And that brake pedal too.
Huff huff
"Luna...flesh...eat..."
Ahh...I gritted my teeth, I couldn't look at him in the eyes as my tear was all over my face looking at him.
I should have stopped him to go into that forest...I didn't know how he turn to that, white eyes with visible blood veins all over his face.
I stepped on the gas pedal increasing the speed, some of them on the truck was shaken off and fell on the road but they could get up fine and jump back in the extremely fast speed, before, I could see them from the truck's side mirror but now they were jumping in the same speed as the truck turning their head at me who was driving.
All of them were shaken off as the truck was faster and faster, but only the landlord still didn't budge.
"I'm sorry..."
My lip was quivering saying that to him, I cried, I might be coming with him afterward because I couldn't control the car anymore, if there was any turn ahead, I might die.
I step on the brake and he was blown to the road as the truck was stopping, then I...I drove over his body.
After many hours of driving, I managed to drive the truck since it was a straight road. But the group of the mindless people keep following me without getting tired, even the landlord with his hand was imprinted with the car's wheel still ran chasing my tail.
I remembered those kids' words about zombies, when I saw them appearing one by one from the side of the roads, I lost all my hope.
There was absolutely no way I could survive in a world like that.
I couldn't see the road anymore because there wasn't a single light that lit the road up ahead, I could only see a part of the road by the truck's light.
Somehow I was relieved, when the watch on my wrist hit twelves, the zombies suddenly stopped chasing me.
I hit the brake and stopped the car in the vast field, I was afraid of the forest. Every time I looked at it, I was afraid the scene from the afternoon might repeat again, I was scared they will jump out of nowhere and kill me.
The anxiety of confessing to my crush didn't matter to the current situation, it was stupid for me to be anxious about such a thing when I faced the type of thing that happened today.
I took a long deep breath but it didn't take the worry out of me like in the past, what should I do?? If there were only a group of zombies appearing in the forest, I had to notify the government before they could reach the city and where people gathered.
I took out my phone, it had no signal. There was only a little snack in my bag, there were only clothes in my bag.
I needed to endure hunger driving back to Seoul.
I looked around and noticed the abandoned warehouse ahead of me. I couldn't stay in the car, those zombies will break inside the truck. I couldn't rely on the window of the truck.
I started the car again and drove right into the warehouse as the entrance fit the truck
I scanned the surrounding, it was really abandoned, there wasn't a single thing here.
My hand which reached to open the truck's door was shaking hard, I had to walk out of the car to close the big door.
There was only two entrance to get inside the warehouse which was the big door and the window all the way up there near the rooftop.
I didn't have to worry about the window, my priority was to seal the door. I had to get some rest, I couldn't hold on anymore.
When I took a step out of the truck, the place where I sat for hours felt warm, my legs lost all their strength.
I panted, I had no clue how to survive the next day especially with all the zombies on the road.
There wasn't anything heavy to block the door from the inside, so I moved my car a little back to close the door.
Haa...
I fell on the ground full of dirt lying on it looking at the moon from the window up there, I started to cry again.
All my hope left was that the zombies haven't reached Seoul yet or any other gathering place.
My eyes felt heavy, I fell asleep on the ground soon after.
I woke up with the alarm clock, I set it to four am.
I climbed to the window and it led me to the rooftop of the warehouse, I looked so hard to see any other people around here.
There wasn't. Instead, I could see the zombie under the tree faraway over there.
That was when I realized I didn't know how to turn the truck. I needed to move the truck back and it will take a very long time.
They will already come to me by then.
What should I do?? What do I have to do--
I stopped thinking when I heard the rustling sound from the back of the truck.
Don't tell me--
Oh no, what if it was the zombie?? How long had it been staying there??
I grabbed the piece of wood in my hand approaching the back of the truck, the inside was big enough for many people, if a zombie managed to get in then there goes for the rest of the zombies too.
There was no way it could be a lot of zombies, at least there was one but though if it was the case, even the wood stick won't help me beat them.
The question was...how didn't I notice them until this moment??
Huh??
My bag!!!!!?? Where was it??
Click Clang
"Why??? Why did you pack the snack so little?? What's with all of these panties??? I need food."
I gasped seeing a human, my feeling was mixed but one thing for sure was that the grip on the wood stick was getting tighter.
All of my panties were thrown from my bag and went all over the ground, it was that guy!!!
"Who are you??! How did you get in here??"
"I'm also the survivor like you, let's just get along...shall we??" his smile didn't help at all, I really wanted to beat the sh*t out of this guy.
The food was all gone.
"Hey!!!!! What're you doing???"
I wrapped the rope I found around his body and tied him to the pillar of the warehouse when he was about to step down from inside of the truck.
"How can I be sure you're not a zombie??" there was blood all over his shirt especially his collar.
He was reek with blood, I smelled blood too but I thought it was the blood on the truck.
What should I do with him??
To be continued...!